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717 ArabByzantine wars: Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
718 ArabByzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
747 Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
927 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
1018 Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1057 King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Mαel Coluim mac Donnchada.
1070 The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
1185 The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1237 The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory.
1248 The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1261 Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
1281 Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
1309 The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1430 Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1461 The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1483 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1511 Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernγo Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1519 Panama City, Panama, is founded.
1534 Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
1537 Asunciσn, Paraguay, is founded.
1540 Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
1599 Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1695 French forces end the bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.
1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1812 War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.
1824 The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843 Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1863 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1893 Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
1907 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1914 A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the latter's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1914 World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914 World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
1915 A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
1920 PolishSoviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
1939 The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1940 An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1944 World War II: Operation Dragoon Allied forces land in southern France.
1945 World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.
1947 India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947 Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1948 The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
1952 A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people.
1954 Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1961 Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1962 James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
1963 Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland, UK.
1963 President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1969 Woodstock rock and roll concert opens.
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
1971 President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
1971 Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President, Park Chung-hee.
1975 Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
1975 Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1977 The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1984 The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
1995 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1996 President of Turkey Sόleyman Demirel approves to "Law of ban For Casino in Turkey"
1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles.
1999 Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013 The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivoran species found in the Americas in 35 years.
Events:C/P.
717 ArabByzantine wars: Maslamah ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year.
718 ArabByzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople.
747 Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as majordomo and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother Pepin the Short becomes the sole ruler (de facto) of the Frankish Kingdom.
927 The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto.
982 Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria
1018 Byzantine general Eustathios Daphnomeles blinds and captures Ibatzes of Bulgaria by a ruse, thereby ending Bulgarian resistance against Emperor Basil II's conquest of Bulgaria.
1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
1057 King Macbeth is killed at the Battle of Lumphanan by the forces of Mαel Coluim mac Donnchada.
1070 The Pavian-born Benedictine Lanfranc is appointed as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in England.
1185 The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.
1237 The Battle of the Puig takes place in the context of the Spanish Reconquista pitting the forces of the Taifa of Valencia against the Kingdom of Aragon. The battle resulted in an Aragonese victory.
1248 The foundation stone of Cologne Cathedral, built to house the relics of the Three Wise Men, is laid. (Construction is eventually completed in 1880.)
1261 Michael VIII Palaiologos is crowned Byzantine emperor in Constantinople.
1281 Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.
1309 The city of Rhodes surrenders to the forces of the Knights of St. John, completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves the Knights of Rhodes.
1430 Francesco Sforza, lord of Milan, conquers Lucca.
1461 The Empire of Trebizond surrenders to the forces of Sultan Mehmed II. This is regarded by some historians as the real end of the Byzantine Empire. Emperor David is exiled and later murdered.
1483 Pope Sixtus IV consecrates the Sistine Chapel.
1511 Afonso de Albuquerque of Portugal conquers Malacca, the capital of the Malacca Sultanate.
1517 Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernγo Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.
1519 Panama City, Panama, is founded.
1534 Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
1537 Asunciσn, Paraguay, is founded.
1540 Arequipa, Peru, is founded.
1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima (Traditional Japanese date: July 22, 1549).
1599 Nine Years' War: Battle of Curlew Pass Irish forces led by Hugh Roe O'Donnell successfully ambush English forces, led by Sir Conyers Clifford, sent to relieve Collooney Castle.
1695 French forces end the bombardment of Brussels, leaving a third of the buildings in the city in ruins.
1760 Seven Years' War: Battle of Liegnitz Frederick the Great's victory over the Austrians under Ernst Gideon von Laudon.
1812 War of 1812: The Battle of Fort Dearborn is fought between United States troops and Potawatomi at what is now Chicago, Illinois.
1824 The Marquis de Lafayette, the last surviving French general of the American Revolutionary War, arrives in New York and begins a tour of 24 states.
1843 The Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in Honolulu, Hawaii is dedicated. Now the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Honolulu, it is the oldest Roman Catholic cathedral in continuous use in the United States.
1843 Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark.
1863 The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom (Traditional Japanese date: July 2, 1863).
1869 The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Shinto.
1893 Ibadan area becomes a British Protectorate after a treaty signed by Fijabi, the Baale of Ibadan with the British acting Governor of Lagos, George C. Denton.
1907 Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
1914 A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the latter's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
1914 The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon.
1914 World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
1914 World War I: Beginning of the Battle of Cer, the first Allied victory of World War I.
1915 A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
1920 PolishSoviet War: Battle of Warsaw, so-called Miracle at the Vistula.
1935 Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1939 13 Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.
1939 The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
1940 An Italian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Greek cruiser Elli at Tinos harbor during peacetime, marking the most serious Italian provocation prior to the outbreak of the Greco-Italian War in October.
1941 Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
1942 World War II: Operation Pedestal The SS Ohio reaches the island of Malta barely afloat carrying vital fuel supplies for the island's defenses.
1944 World War II: Operation Dragoon Allied forces land in southern France.
1945 World War II: Japan surrenders to end the war.
1947 India gains Independence from the British Indian Empire after near 190 years of Crown rule and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
1947 Founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor-General of Pakistan in Karachi.
1948 The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.
1952 A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, United Kingdom, killing 34 people.
1954 Alfredo Stroessner begins his dictatorship in Paraguay.
1960 Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
1961 Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
1962 James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok still resides in the capital, Pyongyang.
1963 Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland, UK.
1963 President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
1965 The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York, New York, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
1969 Woodstock rock and roll concert opens.
1970 Patricia Palinkas becomes the first woman to play professionally in an American football game.
1971 President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
1971 Bahrain gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1973 Vietnam War: The United States bombing of Cambodia ends.
1974 Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President, Park Chung-hee.
1975 Bangladesh's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
1975 Takeo Miki makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
1977 The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.
1984 The Kurdistan Workers' Party in Turkey starts a campaign of armed attacks upon the Turkish military with an attack on police and gendarmerie bases in Şemdinli and Eruh
1995 In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
1996 President of Turkey Sόleyman Demirel approves to "Law of ban For Casino in Turkey"
1998 Omagh bombing in Northern Ireland, the worst terrorist incident of The Troubles.
1999 Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
2005 Israel's unilateral disengagement plan to evict all Israelis from the Gaza Strip and from four settlements in the northern West Bank begins.
2007 An 8.0-magnitude earthquake off the Pacific coast devastates Ica and various regions of Peru killing 514 and injuring 1,090.
2013 At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
2013 The Smithsonian announces the discovery of the olinguito, the first new carnivoran species found in the Americas in 35 years.